A less presumptuous name.

Always a good double-check: Completely uninstall and reinstall the game and see if the problem persists.

Originally Posted By: spambot and even burns calories at every step and even while standing. So if I don't have these shoes, does that mean I don't use energy while standing or walking? Then how do you explain my metabolism? EDIT: Stupid [brackets] messed with my quote box.

If it were vitality that regenerated, players could simply use healing spells repeatedly until they were at full health, and then let their vitality bring itself back up. To make vitality-regeneration work without breaking the game totally, Jeff would have had to remove healing spells.

In 102% of cases, the answer to the question above is found to be yes.

Honestly, if it weren't for these boards, I would never have been able to complete the quest. The secret switches are too difficult, at least on the brick walls.

I remember my first (and only) real playthrough of G1. I remember spending hours hacking away single pylons with my agent (I had accidentally overwritten my shaper early on) and a single battle alpha. It was my first real RPG experience, and I quit somewhere in those mines. I only ever went back through when using an editor and steamrolling for fun. My point is that I remember those mines being really frustrating when you don't know how to handle them. Stick with it, though, and someday you'll laugh when you think back to it.

EDIT: Nevermind, I feel foolish. No, I have no idea if the colors mean anything.

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES Interesting article to look at 12 years later. Generation X now consists of thirtysomethings instead of twentysomethings, and overly philosophical newspaper articles are written about the current generation of twentysomethings instead. I don't think I've heard the suggestion remotely recently that Gen X is any more politically disengaged than anyone else. Our teacher has been pulling these articles out of collections that she got a number of years ago, so nothing is all that recent. It's still interesting to look at some of the explanations for the political disengagement.

We read this in our AP US History class while our teacher was away. I only skimmed it, but it may be an interesting read for those of you interested in the reasons for and against American's political involvement.

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES That is 3:14 long. Therefor, the video is cosmically correct. Anyone who uses long billions or whatever is wrong. Each thousand is a new prefix. Also, whoever pointed out that the second thousand prefix (mil) is one, the third (bil) is two, and so on, thank you. I had noticed this before, and it always frustrates me. Why are numbers so mean to me?

Loot? If you found some bizarre "glitch" that let you kill enough people to escape, just escape. Come back later and loot. You got lucky.

Experience is evenly divided between your characters, and the amount of experience each receives is unaffected by the number of characters with you (unlike Geneforge, where you could dilute your exp). There also goes for your companions back in Avadon - they gain the same exp as your guys out in the field. HOWEVER, each character starts with a slightly different amount of exp, based on what you do before each companion is made available. Once you have them all, the differences in their exp is fixed (until you hit level 30) for the entire game. But don't worry, with the game's level cap, you won't have any shortage of exp.

Originally Posted By: Superba Each and every valuable item has a value written on it; this is approximately one fifth of the money you will get selling it. I think you misspoke (or mistyped, in this setting). I think you mean to say that you will receive one fifth of the item value when you sell the item, not the other way around. Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES I THINK the odd reason is that items with a value of zero won't sell, but items with a value above zero will sell for fractional value. You can't sell them individually, but if there are enough in the junk bag, I believe you WILL get credit for them. I haven't explicitly tested this but noticed this when I've done it by accident. I know that this was the case in previous games. G1 had a value of less than 0.5 for basic thorns, but if you got a larger number, the game would add them all up and round the value. Originally Posted By: lokiju But some armor/weapons don't have a value AFAIK, so it won't sell later? Like leather gloves? Worthless? This is true. Certain beginning weapons and armors are worthless to shops. Daggers and leather gloves fit this category. Once your characters have graduated to bigger toys, you can just drop all the daggers in some baddies basement for fun. Also, I think I saw this somewhere, but I couldn't find it as I was pulling quotes. The only items that you ever need to keep for quests are Drake Skins and Arcane Scrolls.

I assume from your title that you'd like a fix to your complaint. However, no such fix exists to my knowledge. This is a common complain, so Jeff may decide to consider changing how things work in Av2.

Oh... well then thanks I think we should move on, though.

Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves I thought it was a pertinent comment. Which I appreciated. I never said that his original comment was bad. I simply gave and answer and then defended my answer as valid.

Originally Posted By: Arch-Mage Solberg It is all about chance or luck. If any of the varying characteristics of our universe was even a little off, human life could not exist. If the Earth was either a little closer to or farther away from the Sun... If the size of the Earth were either smaller or larger by as much as 2,000 miles... If the moon's gravitational pull were too large or small... Let's assume for the moment that it is all about chance. Yes, the odds that this particular planet that we call "Earth" would have the proper conditions for the life we see around us is infinitesimally small. But look at the bigger picture! There are billions of planets out there, and the likelihood that not one planet would be conducive to life is actually pretty small. It's like Slarty's lottery comment. From an individual's perspective, receiving a jackpot lotto ticket for millions of dollars is crazy-unlikely. And yet, from the lotto company's perspective, it's a normal occurrence. If there is a 0.001% chance of something happening, you can't say that it will never happen, just that you'd have to try a good many times before you see any positive result.

Originally Posted By: Necron99 "Sorry, that's against company policy" would have been equally worthless, but much easier to say Are you saying that my comment was worthless? It may not have been what you wanted to hear, but it was a valid and thus valuable response to your comment above it.

Originally Posted By: people Stuff/Air conditioning My high school has an old and a new wing. The old wing has window air conditioning units for computer labs, libraries, and admin offices. The new wing is all climate controlled. 4 years ago, right before I moved, the middle school that I attended for a year got a new HVAC system. Or rather, a new HV system and a new set of HVAC ducts. They seriously put in AC ducts for the whole school and neglected to put in an actual cooling unit.

That is far beyond the scope of a skill editor. That would require adding huge amounts of additional graphics and coding in which graphics correspond to which items. It would require Jeff to spend large sums of additional money for graphics that don't actually affect gameplay. I enjoy it in games where it is present, but I'd rather not force Jeff to double his graphics cost (and also his selling price) just for additional graphics.

I just mentioned it in the school thread, but it's perhaps more fitting here. My school district (Maryland does them as each county is a single district) was released 3 hours early for the heat and humidity. The threshold is supposedly 90°F by 11am. I honestly didn't think today was as bad as it could have been. And they've already called tomorrow at 3 hours early dismissal. Being a young'un and all, and not having been born in these parts, I don't know how normal this is. What isn't normal is the dearth of AC in schools. If sending every kid in the district home 3 hours early happens multiple times a year due to heat, maybe they should stop repaving roads and spend some money on AC for us kids.

School seems to be out early for me. Today, we got out 3 hours early for the heat (90°F by 11am at any point in the whole county), and they've already called another 3 hours early for tomorrow. Summer? Aside from a few days to attend my cousin's wedding, I'll be spending the whole thing working and taking Health in summer school so that I can graduate.

Click the journal button and look at the special items. I believe Avadon switched training to appear as special items and have a passive, charm-like effect.

Maryland is far too hot for me. The next few days will be in the 90s, and then we'll be dipping in and out of the 80s. My family only sets the AC to 82°F, which is 10-15 degrees above my liking. I can't wait to return to cooler states.

Originally Posted By: In Half Now I pretty much use FB just to play games. I try to avoid being social with anyone. Opposite for me. I mostly use it to communicate and share media with people. I do occasionally browse (read=stalk) pictures of friends...